On Monday evening, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump faced off in a debate that kept fact checkers busy. The candidates debated several topics including national security, racism, and their plans to create new jobs. They did not waste enough time attacking each other with Trump going after Clinton’s stamina and Clinton criticizing Trump’s business failures and his attitude toward women. The moderator for the debate, NBC’s Lester Holt was largely absent from the event with the candidates answered his questions then going back-and-forth with each other. Watch a full replay of the debate below, and the next presidential debate is scheduled for October 9.
Hillary for America responded to last night’s debate with a new video and a links to a series of articles calling Clinton the winner of the debate. Watch the video below and click the links to read the articles.
- Washington Post: Editorial Board: The first debate proved again that only one of the candidates is fit to be president
- Associated Press: Analysis: In debate, Clinton was prepared, Trump was Trump
- Associated Press: Debate Takeaways: Clinton gets under Trump’s skin in debate
- New York Times: Debate Takeways: Hillary Clinton Digs In and Prevails
- New York Times: Commentators Give Hillary Clinton Edge in Debate
- New York Times (The Upshot): Prediction Markets Score the Debate a Rout: Clinton Over Trump
- Washington Post: Clinton went after Trump’s weakness: His famously thin skin
- Washington Post: Why even Republicans think Clinton won the first debate
- Washington Post (Opinion): Clinton shifts the election in her direction
- Washington Post (Opinion): What worked for Trump in the primaries failed him against Clinton
- Washington Post (Opinion): Donald Trump claimed that Hillary Clinton lacked the stamina to be president. Guess who wilted on the debate stage?
- Washington Post: The answer that best exemplifies how badly Donald Trump was out of his depth in the debate
- Washington Post: Caught in Iraq War lie, Donald Trump cries ‘Hannity’
- Washington Post: Trump started out subdued, then his cool quickly melted
- Washington Post: Clinton outscores Trump — but the campaign isn’t over yet
- Washington Post (Opinion): Trump takes the bait; Clinton sticks to the script
- Wall Street Journal: Markets Bet On Hillary Clinton After First Presidential Debate
- CNBC: Fidgeting, restless Trump says he has a ‘much better temperament’ than Clinton
- CNBC: Donald Trump: The one time Hillary Clinton got under my skin during the debate
- CNN: Clinton puts Trump on defense at first debate
- CNN: Who won the debate? The Mexican peso says it wasn’t Trump
- CNN: How Hillary Clinton took debate prep seriously
- NBC News: Analysis: Hillary Clinton’s Studies for Debate With Donald Trump Pay Off
- Bloomberg: Clinton Excels in Debate by Laying Traps on Trump’s Temperament
- Business Insider: 5 pieces of evidence that Hillary Clinton won the big presidential debate
- Buzzfeed: How Hillary Clinton Took Charge In The First Presidential Debate
- Buzzfeed: Donald Trump Made A Number Of False Claims During The Debate
- Daily Beast: Donald Trump Comes Up Small On His Biggest Stage Yet
- Daily Beast: Donald Trump Bungles Hillary Clintons Tax Returns Attack
- The Economist: A win for Hillary Clinton
- Fast Company: Trump Seems To Admit Not Paying Taxes, Then Denies Admitting It
- Financial Times: Forex markets hand debate to Clinton
- FiveThirtyEight: Clinton Won The Debate, Which Means She’s Likely To Gain In The Polls
- Fortune: At Least a Few Republican Pros Agree: Hillary Clinton Beat Donald Trump
- Fortune: Did Donald Trump Just Admit He Doesn’t Pay Federal Income Taxes?
- Fortune: Hillary Clinton Blames Donald Trump for the Deficit, With a Burn: ‘Maybe It’s Because You Haven’t Paid Any Taxes’
- The Guardian: Hillary Clinton stays calm while Trump loses cool during first presidential debate
- The Guardian: Hillary Clinton clear debate winner among group of undecided voters
- Huffington Post: Trump’s Debate Performance Was The Worst Ever
- Huffington Post: Clinton Destroys Trump On His Missing Tax Returns
- Mashable: Is Trump toast? Clinton scores a huge victory in the first debate
- Mother Jones: Hillary Clinton Just Eviscerated Trump Over His Tax Returns
- New York Daily News: Donald Trump sniffles through first debate with Hillary Clinton
- New York Magazine: Did Trump Just Admit He Doesn’t Pay Any Taxes?
- New York Magazine: Ranting Bully Donald Trump Came Unglued in First Presidential Debate
- New York Post: Trump’s debate incompetence a slap in the face to his supporters
- Newsweek: Donald Trump’s Sniffling, Humbling Debate Debacle
- Politico: Trump Takes the Bait:
- Politico: Insiders: Hillary Won
- Politico: Clinton set the trap and Trump walked in
- Politico: Trump: My mic was ‘defective’
- Slate Magazine: It Sure Sounds Like Donald Trump Just Admitted He Doesn’t Pay Taxes
- Slate: At the First Presidential Debate, Hillary Proves She’s Got This
- Spectator: Last night’s debate was Donald Trump vs Himself. And Trump lost
- TIME: Diligent Hillary Clinton Upstages Donald Trump at Crucial Moment
- TIME: Hillary Clinton Was Tough and Disciplined at the Debate
- Vox: Donald Trump kept lying about his role in birtherism during the debate
- Vox: The first debate featured an unprepared man repeatedly shouting over a highly prepared woman
- Vox: Early polls and focus groups suggest Hillary Clinton won the debate
- Vox: Trump interrupted Clinton 51 times at the debate. She interrupted him just 17 times.
- Baltimore Sun: Clinton-Trump debate: A bad TV night for the reality TV star who would be president
- Cleveland Plain Dealer: Score one for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the first debate: editorial
- Denver Post: In Colorado, debate watchers left wanting more from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
- Des Moines Register: Experts: Round 1 to Clinton
- Des Moines Register: Obradovich: Prepared Hillary Clinton clobbers Donald Trump in debate
- St. Louis Post Dispatch: Editorial: Trump doubles down on rudeness; Clinton keeps her cool in Monday’s debate
- New Yorker: Donald Trump, a failed bully in his debate with Clinton
- ATTN: Here’s the Tweet Donald Trump Denied Saying at Tonight’s Debate
- CNN: Trump: ‘I’m smart’ for not paying taxes
- CNN: Clinton delivers in first debate
- Boston Globe’s Scott Lehigh: Only one person on that stage was presidential
- Boston Globe’s Michael Cohen: Hillary Clinton got under Donald Trump’s skin
- TIME: Diligent Hillary Clinton Upstages Donald Trump at Crucial Moment
- TIME: This Group of Undecided Voters Watched the Debate. They Think Hillary Clinton Won
- Washington Post: Donald Trump’s dispatches from fantasyland
- LA Times: Former Miss Universe derided by Trump as ‘Miss Piggy’ can’t wait to vote against him
- Reuters: Clinton assails Trump in blistering U.S. presidential debate
- Rolling Stone: Trump Slunk Under the Lowest of Low Bars at the Debate
- Rolling Stone: Trump’s Big Debate Lie on Global Warming
- NPR: In Post-Debate Interview, Trump Again Criticizes Pageant-Winner’s Weight
- BuzzFeed: Trump Campaign Co-Chair: Trump’s Tax Returns Are Nobody’s “Damn Business”
- Vanity Fair: Trump Lost His Cool When Asked About His Judgment
- Fortune: Why Small Businesses Think Hillary Clinton Won the Debate
- Talking Point Memo: A Timeline Of Trump’s Debate Night Waffling On Paying Taxes
- Cosmopolitan: The Internet is Obsessed with Donald Trump’s Sniffles at the Presidential Debate
- Cosmopolitan: Hillary Clinton Calls Donald Trump Out For Sexism at the First Presidential Debate
- Cosmopolitan: Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado Won’t Be Defined by Donald Trump’s Fat-Shaming
- Minn Post: I watched the first presidential debate three times: Hillary Clinton won
- CBS News: Poll: Nearly two-thirds of debate watchers said Hillary Clinton won
- Cosmopolitan: Hillary Clinton Just Had the Perfect Mic Drop Moment at the Presidential Debate
- Cosmopolitan: Hillary Clinton Shuts Down Donald Trump Over His Tax Returns at the First Presidential Debate
- Fortune: Markets Say Hillary Clinton Won Last Night’s Debate
- CNBC: Clinton wins debate, stops Trump’s momentum
- Mediate: Mika Brzezinski is forced to admit: Hillary Clinton won the debate, but…
- Quartz: The Mexican peso says Hillary Clinton won the first US presidential debate
- Mic: Trump lost the presidential debate, and the votes of makeup lovers everywhere
- Wall Street Journal: Ford Fights Back Against Trump Debate Claims
Hillary for America arranged for a number of debate watch parties across the country. The watch parties and fundraising events were held in Orlando, Florida (with guest Tim Kaine); Brookline, Massachusetts (with guests Michelle Kwan and Kathleen Sebelius); New York City (with guest Uzo Aduba); New York City (Hillary for America sponsored); Chicago, Illinois (with Chicago LGBT for Hillary); Seattle, Washington; and Austin, Texas.
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News Source: Vox, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fox News, NBC News, CBS News, The Atlantic, Time, Politico, Vanity Fair, Politifact
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